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A package called CET (Classical Text Editor)

A package called CET (Critical Edition Typesetter)

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See also http://zvon.org/comp/s/unicode_reference/index.html, another site to check out Unicode characters.  You can type in a hexadecimal number, decimal number, or HTML entity name and see information about the character and others similar to it.

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[after “Publisher does both.)”]   Note that Word 2010 will actually apply OT features only if a font is digitally signed—you can turn the features on the Fonts dialog but nothing happens without the signature, even though the features are present in the font.  Publisher 2010 does not care about this.  (See page 25 and Figure 2.1 for explanation of the digital signature issue.)   

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The version of Uniscribe (see page 19 for background on this Windows component) that shipped with Windows 7 was not programmed to recognize any of the characters in the supplementary planes that were added in Unicode 5.2, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, Imperial Aramaic, and several others.  If you attempt to use any of these characters on a system with this version of Uniscribe, you will see two empty rectangles instead of the character.  At some point Microsoft will undoubtedly issue an updated Uniscribe, but until then Windows 7 users who need any of the 5.2 supplementary characters have a problem.

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The free font editor C R8Type has been updated and renamed TypeLight; see http://www.cr8.netfirms.com/typelight.html.

If you wish (and are allowed by the license) to modify a font that contains OpenType, AAT, or Graphite features, you need to proceed with caution to avoid rendering the features inoperative or buggy.  FontLab Studio 5.02 has an option to preserve binary tables (tables are where the feature information is stored) when it opens a font, and another option to make use of these tables when it exports a new version of the font.  If you enable these options and make no changes to any characters that are included in the existing features (e.g., adding a missing character), you should be all right.  If you change or delete a character that is part of a feature, the font may not export or may not work right.  FontLab Studio also tries to convert the binary tables to a human-readable form that you can edit, but don’t try this unless you really know what you are doing.  I have read that Font Forge preserves existing features, but have not experimented for myself in this area with it or with any font editors except FontLab Studio.

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Another Windows character utility is Character Map (Java), available from http://download.cnet.com/Character-Map-Java/3000-2316_4-10861904.html. 

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Logos Bible Software, well known for its commercial Bible study products that include texts in the original languages, also offers a free utility called Shibboleth (Windows XP or more recent only).  This utility enables one to enter text in a variety of ancient languages: Greek, Coptic, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Ugaritic, and others.  One can then copy and paste the results into a Unicode-based word processor or page layout program.  Shibboleth is designed particularly for use with languages in which the user is not an expert or which he/she does not type frequently; it provides both keyboard entry and character palettes, the latter of which are intended to help users find characters or distinguish similarly shaped glyphs.  A transliteration mode provides access to many Unicode combining diacritics not usually found on keyboards.  Downloads and a brief manual are available from http://www.logos.com/shibboleth.  It is interesting to note that Shibboleth requires accents to be typed after the base character, rather than using the more common deadkey setup described on page 79.

Also from Logos come four Windows keyboards for Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Coptic, Syriac, and Latin transliteration (with diacritics used in the transliteration of biblical languages).  These are free and well documented, including an installation video; see http://www.logos.com/support/downloads/keyboards.

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§9.5:  Andrew West (author of BabelMap and BabelPad) has created some excellent Unicode Runic and Ogham fonts that take advantage of OpenType features and include mirrored glyphs for the runes; highly recommended.  His blog also contains interesting articles about issues with Runic and Ogham as well as information about his fonts.  All this is available from his website, http://www.babelstone.co.uk/

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Gaultney, J. Victor (2002).  Problems of diacritic design for Latin script text faces.  Available online at http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/ProbsOfDiacDesignLowRes.pdf.  This is a very useful article (actually, a master’s thesis) for those who are interested in the various issues involved in creating diacritical marks that are both attractive and, most importantly, legible.